Download or read book Clipping the Clouds written by Marc Dierikx and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing in elements of pop culture, Dierikx provides a chronological history of the evolution of air travel. He covers the significant challenges and developments in air transportation for a specific period, starting with how and why aviation came to play an important role in international politics and economic relations. He follows with an examination of how improvements in technology influenced existing concepts of distance, created new travel patterns, and what effect the growth in numbers of passenger and cargo had on air transportation. Finally, Dierikx looks at how airlines have become increasingly detached from national interests and state control, concluding with an overview of the current state of air travel, and a description of the role air transportation played in the creation of a global society. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is difficult to imagine our world without aircraft. Airplanes are everywhere, and rapid air transport has become one of the necessities of our time. Yet one of the peculiarities of powered flight is that it has stayed in the public focus for over a century. Clipping the Clouds looks at the history of aviation in a challenging new way, covering not just the technology, but the way aviation has interacted with society since its very beginnings. Mixing in pop culture—each chapter opens and closes with an excerpt from a movie that depicts elements of air transport illustrating the chapter's theme—Dierikx provides a chronological history of the evolution of air travel since 1919. He covers the significant challenges and developments in air transportation for each of four chronological periods, starting with how and why aviation came to play an important role in international politics and economic relations. He follows with an examination of how improvements in technology influenced existing concepts of distance, created new travel patterns, and what effect the growth in numbers of passenger and cargo had on air transportation. Finally, Dierikx looks at how airlines have become increasingly detached from national interests and state control, concluding with an overview of the current state of air travel and a description of the role air transportation has played in the creation of a global society.
Download or read book A Castle in the Clouds written by Kerstin Gier and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty and charming, New York Times-bestselling author Kerstin Gier's contemporary young adult novel A Castle in the Clouds follows a girl as she navigates secrets, romance, and danger in an aging grand hotel. Way up in the Swiss mountains, there's an old grand hotel steeped in tradition and faded splendor. Once a year, when the famous New Year's Eve Ball takes place and guests from all over the world arrive, excitement returns to the vast hallways. Sophie, who works at the hotel as an intern, is busy making sure that everything goes according to plan. But unexpected problems keep arising, and some of the guests are not who they pretend to be. Very soon, Sophie finds herself right in the middle of a perilous adventure—and at risk of losing not only her job, but also her heart.
Download or read book Under Fishbone Clouds written by Sam Meekings and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under Fishbone Clouds is a universal love story, a family saga, and a journey through Chinese history, myth, and culture. Following a young Chinese couple as their love grows, and is tested, during Mao's Cultural Revolution, this elegant debut novel provides a rare and personal glimpse into the birth modern China. When the Kitchen God is challenged by the Jade Emperor to fathom the workings of the human heart, he chooses to follow the life of Jinyi and his wife Yuying, from their blossoming love until their old age, in hope of finding an answer. The Kitchen God watches as the new government strictures split their family in two, living inside their hearts as they they endure the loss of two children, homesickness, and isolation, all while keeping alive a love that survives famine, forced labor, and even death. Weaving together the story of their life with China's recent political history, as well as traditional folktales and myths, the Kitchen God illuminates the most impenetrable aspects the human condition. Sam Meekings's remarkable debut novel showcases his luminous, poetic writing, as well as insights that belong to a writer twice his age. Part love story and part historical narrative, Under Fishbone Clouds carries the weight and beauty of a lifetime's achievement.
Download or read book Clouds written by Anne Rockwell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes different types of clouds and how to identify them.
Download or read book Ours to Explore written by Pippa Biddle and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism—the pairing of short-term, unskilled volunteer work with tourism. In the years since, Biddle has devoted herself to understanding the origins, intentions, and outcomes of a multibillion-dollar industry built on the premise of doing good, and she tracks that investigation in Ours to Explore. The flaws of voluntourism have included xenophobia, racism, paternalism, and a “West knows best” mentality. From exploitative orphanages that keep children in squalid conditions to attract donors to undertrained medical volunteers practicing their skills on patients in developing regions and to those looking for an inspiring selfie, Biddle reveals the hidden costs of the voluntourism complex. Along the way, readers meet inspiring activists and passionate community members, as well as thoughtful former voluntourists who still work to make a difference—just differently. Ours to Explore offers a plan for how the service-based travel industry can break the cycle of exploitation and suggests strategies for travelers who want to improve the places they visit for the long haul.
Download or read book A History of Modern Tourism written by Eric Zuelow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, yet leisure travel is more than just economically important. It plays a vital role in defining who we are by helping to place us in space and time. In so doing, it has aesthetic, medical, political, cultural, and social implications. However, it hasn't always been so. Tourism as we know it is a surprisingly modern thing, both a product of modernity and a force helping to shape it. A History of Modern Tourism is the first book to track the origins and evolution of this pursuit from earliest times to the present. From a new understanding of aesthetics to scientific change, from the invention of steam power to the creation of aircraft, from an elite form of education to family car trips to see national 'shrines,' this book offers a sweeping and engaging overview of a fascinating story not yet widely known.
Download or read book Improve Your HDR Photography written by Jim Harmer and published by Jim Harmer. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of his massively popular first book, "Improve Your Photography", award-winning photographer and author Jim Harmer releases "Improve Your HDR Photography." Chapter one is a quick HDR tutorial for beginners, and then the remaining chapters build on the basic knowledge with advanced techniques and hundreds of tips from the pros. What could your HDRs look like after applying these tips?
Download or read book A Walk in the Clouds written by D. Chiel and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Molecular Clouds in the Carina Arm written by David Andrew Grabelsky and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac OS X written by Jeff Carlson and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start with a tour of the interface and image-editing basics, or they can look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to show readers how to capture and import photos, reduce red eye, enhance color, work with layers, and much more. Coverage includes: applying direct effects with the Adobe Smart Brush, softening surfaces and keeping edges crisp with a new filter, and finding photos easily with keywords. Both beginning and intermediate users will find everything they need here--in straightforward language and with readily accessible examples.
Download or read book Sams Teach Yourself SVG in 24 Hours written by Micah Laaker and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation An easy-to-follow tutorial that introduces developers, programmers, and designers to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Micah Laaker is the art director of a leading New York Web development firm that implemented Battlebots.com, the first commercial application of SVG. Distribution of the Adobe SVG Viewer is expected to exceed 50 million by the end of 2001. Provides a clear introduction to SVG, a technology that is set to revolutionize the way graphics function on the Web. Sams Teach Yourself SVG in 24 Hours provides a thorough understanding of the technology, complete with working examples and practical answers to common development questions. The book focuses on how to create imagery in SVG for static and dynamic graphics. Micah Laaker is the art director of Iguana Studios, Inc., a leading New York City-based creative digital services firm. Iguana received a contract from Adobe Systems to create the first commercial application of SVG (Battlebots.com). Laaker and Iguana have won numerous awards for design and Web development, including the 2000 Web Marketing Association Award. He has lectured on new media topics at New York's Fordham University and serves as a judge of Web advertising for the annual New York Festivals Award committee. His corporate and entertainment clients have included Disney Channel, Sprint PCS, Lockheed Martin, and Adobe Systems.
Download or read book Highlights of Astronomy written by Derek McNally and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1989-06-30 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the customary practice to report the major events of a General Assembly -the Invited Discourses, Joint Discussions and Joint Commission Meetings in Highlights of Astronomy. Vol. 8 reports the highlights of the XXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, 1988 August 2-11, Baltimore, USA. The present volume contains the 3 Invited Discourses and papers presented at 7 Joint Discussion Meetings and 6 Joint Commission Meetings. Two Joint Commission Meetings will be reported elsewhere -JCM5 Spectroscopy of Individual Stars in Globular Clusters and the Early Chemical Evolution of our Galaxy (in summary only here, published by the Imprimerie de l'Observatoire de Paris) and JCM7 Star Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds (see Transactions of the IAU, Vol.XXB, report of Commission 37). I am most grateful to the authors of the invited discourses R.M. West and V.I. Moroz, M. Schmidt and M. Rees for sending me the manuscripts so promptly. I am also indebted to the Chairmen of the Joint Discussion and Joint Commission Meetings for their organisation of the meetings and for the assembly of their material for publication. Unfortunately the deadline for receipt of manuscripts coincided with an extended postal strike in France which seriously hindered the preparation of the volume for publication.
Download or read book Flash Journalism written by Mindy McAdams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book The Book of Clouds written by Marc Zegans and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An offering of clouds in verse. A different cloud on which to sleep for each night of any month.
Download or read book Photoshop Elements 11 written by Jeff Carlson and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re an Elements newbie or an experienced veteran, this book will teach you all you need to know--from adjustments to bring out the best in your photos, editing in five easy steps, and organizing media by places and events, to working with raw files--and much more! This fully updated edition includes: concise, step-by-step instructions; hundreds of carefully edited full color photographs; screen captures of program features; supplemental tips and sidebars; and a thorough table of contents and index. Readers can download many of the key images featured in the guide and practice along with the author.
Download or read book The Distribution of Molecular Clouds in Spiral Galaxies written by David Scott Adler and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
